only one needs to read the data. Only one needs to write it (the receiver)

if you’re found later with a bunch of pirated material, you’re the one who gets prosecuted, not whoever you dowloaded it from

it’s a digital item. You can only make a copy

you are literally choosing to run the software that writes it to your disk. You also (probably) take steps to ensure the uploader does not have access to your disk. You are in control of what gets saved

when downloading something, you are making a copy. That copy is unauthorized. It’s illegal. The distributor didn’t give it to you, they still have their copy. And you just reproduced it again.

downvotes are because you are saying provably factually incorrect things.

ah so they only downloaded them illigally, and then used them illegally, but didn’t share them illegally. got it

I set it up once on install, 4 years ago. I have never needed to tweak any settings after that. Even when installing a different distro (config lives in the home directory)

except that extensions are second class citizens at best, on gnome. Some (or all, sometimes) of them will break after an update.

it doesn’t allow changes to stuff that needs root access to change. If you have root access you can do anything, including switching images. It is not more secure. It’s not less either

it’s ok. I don’t need protection from myself.

but only until the next update, which will probably break half your extensions, because they are entirely unsupported and uncared for bythe gnometeam

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

this is so games can render at half the framerate, but the fps counter doesn’t show it right? Yay? I guess…

extensions are not supported in gnome. gnome devs do not care in the slightest if they break them whenever.

it’s “my way or the highway” but for gui

with his death and the huge focus on trying to protect me from myself, I can see linux becoming even more restrictive than android. He’s one of the few sane ones left.

i switched to porkbun from godaddy specifically because of this.

“the next generation cloud-native”

that’s as far as I got. Cloud native is an immediate, non-negotiable red flag for me